Format
EBook
Pages
113
ID
B01D1MG72S
No other enterprise in America's history ever approached whaling for adventure. Here, award-winning historian Edouard A. Stackpole describes the early Colonial days, when boat crews attacked whales near shore, through the development of deep-sea whaling by the hardy Quaker whalemen of Nantucket, and on into the adventure-packed century when Yankee whalemen made the world their domain.